Ready-reference device.



PATENTED FEB. 27, .1906.

H. W. POPE. READY REFERENCE DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 4. 1904.

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READY-REFERENCE DEVICE.

5 Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 27, 1906.

Application filed May 4., 1904. Serial No. 206,337.

T at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY W. POPE, a citizen of the United States,residing in the borough of Manhattan, in the city, county, and State ofNew York, have invented certain 'newand useful Improvements in a Systemof times and places of events.

While my invention is widely applicable, I have chosen herein toillustrate it by describing its use for memoranda of numbers pertainlngto those subscribers of atelephoneexchange with whom any user of mydevices may-be often in communication.

The accom anying drawings illustrate my invention. igure 1 is a view ofa telephonetransmitter with my improved device in position, Fig. 2 isaplan view of the memo randum device with 1ts perforations and foldinglines. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the memorandum device; and Fig. 4 isa section of the telephone-transmitter, showing the memorandum device inposition between the mouthpiece and head.

4 is the mouthpiece of a telephone-transmitter; 6, the head ofa'telephone-transmitter. One end of mouthpiece '4. is screwthreaded toengage a screw-threaded aperture in the head 6 of the transmitter, andthere is a flange 16, which engages the head 6 of the transmitter whenthe mouthpiece is screwed down. 5, the memorandum device. 11 is the baseof the desk-telephone set. The

' memorandum device 5 consists of a blank having a surface suitable forreceiving an inscription or written record applied either by means ofpen and ink, a lead pencil, a slatepencil, as in the case of a silicatedsurface, or any substantially equivalent or well-known means. 1

13 is a central aperture in the device 5 to receive the screw-threadedend 22 of the mouthpiece 4, Figs. 2 and 4.- The memorandum device 5 issuitably creased, as at 12, to form sections 17 substantially one-halfthe width of the central section, and there are'ap- \BItllIGS, like 14and 20, which the creases or hinges 12 bisect. The free ends of thememorandum 5 are provided with semicircular concavities, like 15 and 21.When the device is in position and firmly clamped by screwing down themouthpiece 4, the sections 17 of the devices 5 are folded toward themouthpiece 4 and against the central section The next fold is in thereversed direction and folds down upon the first fold. The third fold istoward the mouthpiece, and the concavities l5 and 21 coming in contactwith the flaring outlines of the mouthpiece 4 are held in asubstantially closed position, so as to hideor obscure the written orprinted notations on the memorandum device 5. In other words, thesemicircular openings meet around mouthpiece 4, and as the mouth ieceflares outwardly from flange 16 towar the opening the concave edges orsemicircular openings when forced into place and when removed from theclosed posltion are sli htly distorted. Thus mouthpiece lac-ts asaflolding device to retain the memorandum 5 closed.

Device 5 is sometimes made of silicatedcardboard sections 17 and has acloth 0, Fig. 3, glued to its back or reversed side. The memorandum 5may also be made from paper of ordinary stiffness, or it may be madefrom metal sheets having suitable notation-surface, the sections beingsuitably connected together to permit of folding, as described.

The memorandum device 5 consists of a central section-say'of unitarea-and two series of sections of substantially one-half the unit area,said sections united by flexible hinge-like connections produced bycreasing or marking the sheet or in any suitable manner, alternatecreases or hinges being made or formed upon opposite sides,respectively, of the sheet, so that one-half section may be foldedtoward the center and the next adjacent scction may be folded in theopposite direction or away from the center.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with a telephone instrument havin a suitable mouthiece, of a memorandum d evice consisting o a central section held inposition by said mouthpiece and folded upon opposite sides, the freeedges making contact with the exterior surface of the mouthpiece.

2. The combination with a telephone instrument having a suitablemouthpiece, of a memorandum device consisting of a central sectionclamped in position by said mouthpiece and folded upon op osite sidestoward and into enga ement wit said mouthpiece.

3. The combination with a telephone instrument having a suitable mouthiece, of a area adapted to be folded in alternate re= memorandum deviceconsisting of a central section held in position by said mouth iece andhaving a series of folds or connecte sections normally held indetachable engagement with said mouthpiece.

4. A memorandum device consisting of a sheet adapted to be held inposition on a telephone instrument and having a central perforation, aseries of auxiliary perforations upon opposite sides of the centralperforation and a series of flaps or folds, each flap or fold havingsubstantially one-half the area of the central section, the auxiliaryperforations arranged to form complementary perforations concentric withthe first-named perforation.

5. A memorandum device consisting of a sheet adapted to be held inposition on a telephone instrument and having a central perforation anda series of auxiliary perforations upon opposite sides of the centralperfora tion, said auxiliary perforations being arranged to formcomplementary perforations concentric with the first-named perforation.

6. A memorandum device consisting of a sheet adapted to be held inposition on a telephone instrument and having a central perforatedsection of unit area and two series of sections of substantiallyone-half the unit versed directions onto the central section withsuitable perforations on the foldinglines of said sections.

7. A memorandum device consisting of a sheet adapted to be held inposition on a telephone instrument having a central perforation and aseries of auxiliary perforations upon opposite sides thereof,folding-lines biseating said auxiliary perforations and dividing thesheets into subsections to be folded toward each other in alternatereversed directions onto the central section, the perforations beingconcentric and superposed.

8. A memorandum device consisting of a record-sheet adapted to be heldin position on a telephone instrument and having a perforated centralsection, flaps or folds of less area than the central section; andauxiliary perforations, equally divided by said flaps or folds, formingcomplementary parts concentric with the first-named perforation.

In testimony of the foregoing I have hereto signed my name in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY W. POPE.

Witnesses:

- EMMA E. CARLSON,

CHARLES H. SEWALL.

